Teacher - Primary Health Care, Tafe Queensland

About TAFE Queensland

TAFE Queensland is proud to be the largest and most experienced Vocational Education and Training provider in the State. For more than 140 years, TAFE Queensland has delivered practical and industry-relevant training to provide students with the skills and experience they need to build lifelong careers. TAFE Queensland has been named the Large Training Provider of the Year at the 2024 Australian Training Awards. Our training is delivered to students and apprentices on-site, online, in the workplace, or on-campus to give people the skills they need to enrich their communities, support their industries, and strengthen their local economies.

By working at TAFE Queensland, you can be part of a highly experienced workforce closely connected with their industries and dedicated to delivering best practices and innovative training.

Your Opportunity

As a teacher, you will contribute to developing and delivering quality learning, teaching, and assessment to a wide range of clients through:

• Outcome-focused vocational education and training (VET) programs.
• Linking with industry, schools, universities, community, other TAFE and VET providers.
• Maintaining currency with industry practices, workplace delivery, and contemporary teaching methodologies and philosophies.
• Working in an environment of ongoing change and continuous improvement.

This position reports to the Business Manager

This is a temporary, part-time (0.5FTE) opportunity, for 10 months unless otherwise determined.

The position will be based primarily at Cairns; however, you may be required to perform work at other TAFE Queensland campuses.

Key Responsibilities

• Display teaching competence and a commitment to a student-centred approach.
• Lead and manage effective teaching and learning within classroom, workplace, simulated, and online learning environments with a focus on student engagement, progression, and success.
• Utilize flexible, blended, and inclusive learning techniques, options, and products responsive to various student cohorts, including commencing students and those with priority needs.
• Design, develop, and implement assessment tools and processes that meet industry skills standards (endorsed components from National Training Packages).
• Participate in continuous improvement activities to enhance the quality of training and assessment provided to students.
• Develop effective working relationships with students, client groups, and staff by participating in team meetings, industry reference groups, student events, and forums, inviting feedback, and engaging in reflection.
• Ensure that students adopt and practice accepted safety procedures and sustainability in the learning and assessment environment.
• Contribute to planning, designing, developing, implementing, and reviewing educational programs.
• Participate in relevant professional learning activities to develop and maintain currency of personal and professional skills, knowledge, and attitudes for both industry and learning, teaching, and assessment.
• Undertake general administration duties including monitoring student attendance and progression, facilitating access to educational support, and providing effective feedback and advice.
• Contribute to the success of transformation and cultural change by promoting and modeling the values of Safety First, Working Together, Focusing on our Customer, Taking Responsibility, and Showing Initiative.
• Contribute to the faculty's success through acknowledgment and daily implementation of TQN agreed behaviors: We take ownership, invest in each other, seek to understand, celebrate success, and are brave enough to contribute.

How you will be assessed

The ideal applicant will demonstrate the following key capabilities:

• Possess skills and knowledge of national training packages and accredited courses to support competency development and respond positively to industry and individual needs.
• Demonstrate capacity for best practice in managing teaching and learning activities, including developing industry-relevant, flexible, innovative, technology-enhanced learning options, training products, and solutions.
• Show capacity for initiative, self-management, teamwork, and sustainable practice, with the ability to accept, promote, and manage change through well-developed interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrate commitment to self-development, maintaining skills in contemporary industry and teaching practices, and the use of educational technologies and Learning Management Systems to support learning.
• Possess sound knowledge of safe, equitable, and anti-discriminatory work practices, demonstrating flexibility, inclusiveness, responsiveness, and delivering quality student experiences.

Mandatory Qualifications / Requirements

a. Vocational competencies at least to the level being delivered and assessed;

• HLT40221 Certificate IV in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care Practice, or higher qualification

b. Possession of one of the following training and assessment credentials:

• TAE Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
• TAE Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
• TAE Certificate IV in Training and Assessment plus TAELLN411 Address Adult Language, Literacy and Numeracy Skills and TAEASS502 Design and Develop Assessment Tools
• TAE Diploma of Vocational Education and Training
• TAE Diploma of Vocational Education and Training; or its successor
• TAE Diploma of Training Design and Development
• TAE Diploma of Training Design and Development, or its successor

c. Current industry skills directly relevant to the training and assessment being provided;

d. Current knowledge and skills in vocational training and learning that inform the training and assessment provided;

e. Evidence of undertaking professional development in the fields of vocational training, learning, and assessment, including competency-based training and assessment.

Note : Proof of qualifications and industry currency/experience to be provided at interview.

Highly Desirable Requirements

• Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants are strongly encouraged to apply
• A minimum of 2-3 years' experience working in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander healthcare settings
• Demonstrated understanding of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultures, histories, and health perspectives
• High level of digital literacy skills across various platforms (online Learning Management Systems)